Azerbaijan

Population

Population

2018:35% increase since 1989 to 9.6 million

Age

Migration

2021: Net population inflow in 4 years

2015: Emigration

Nationalities

Lezgians

After the collapse of the USSR, a border was drawn along the Samur River. Most of the Lezghins (are the second largest ethnic group after Azerbaijanis) remained outside Russia. Mainly in the northern regions of Azerbaijan.

For a long time, Lezgin was "converted" into Azerbaijanis within the framework of Baku's state policy. They changed the endings of surnames, added "-ogly" or -kyzy "to patronymics, did not give state or officer posts if a citizen of Azerbaijan called himself a Lezgin.

Mortality

Traffic safety

President

According to Azerbaijani law, the president of the republic is elected for a term of seven years.

2024: Snap election ahead of schedule without explanation

Early presidential elections will be held in Azerbaijan on February 7, 2024. The corresponding order in December 2023 was signed by the President of the Republic Ilham Aliyev.

The next presidential elections were to be held in October 2025. The reasons for the postponement of the elections are not reported. The previous presidential elections in Azerbaijan took place in April 2018.

Parliament - National Assembly

2024:68 seats for the ruling New Azerbaijan party

According to the results of the elections held in September 2024, 10 instead of 8 opposition parties appeared in the new parliament, with most of them, as in 2020, represented only by the party leader. That is, the formal opposition will be 13 instead of 10 deputies. The ruling New Azerbaijan party has reduced the number of mandates from 70 to 68.

2022: The proportion of women in parliament is less than 20%

Education

2023: Map of the country in textbooks with the territories of Russia and Central Asia

2019: Number of years of education by citizens over 25

Health care

2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more

Disease statistics

HIV/AIDS

Maternity leave

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Economy

• Economy of Azerbaijan

Information Technology Market

• Azerbaijan IT market

Armed Forces

2024: Defense budget rises to $3.5 billion

2023: Turkey contract to upgrade Su-25 attack aircraft to NATO standards

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense in July 2023 signed a contract with the Turkish defense company Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) for the modernization of 20 Su-25 attack aircraft.

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces are gradually switching to Turkish types of weapons, integrating them with existing models.

The Turks will update both the Su-25 engine and avionics according to NATO standards, but first of all they will make it possible to install precision missiles and bombs produced in Turkey. Moreover, there is experience in modernizing Soviet equipment for Western examples, ranging from Poles to Ukrainian aircraft.

2022: Delivery of 135 anti-aircraft installations to Ukraine for war with Russia

Main article: Supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine

The decision of the economic court of Kyiv to resolve the dispute sheds light on military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

At the end of December 2023, the Kyiv Economic Court considered a lawsuit from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense against the UkrSpetsExport enterprise to recover 82,696,776 hryvnia for violation of the concluded state contract for the supply of weapons.

Representatives of the Ukrainian company signed a contract with a "foreign supplier - a production association (Azerbaijan Republic)" on the supply of 95 units of 23-mm anti-aircraft installations ZU-23-2 and then another 40 units. Total - 135 ZU-23-2.

Delivery was carried out by sea containers in disassembled form through a "third country," which led to an increase in the time frame.

Given the geographical position, Turkey could become the third party, where ZU-23-2 could be delivered from Azerbaijani Nakhichevan, wrote "Rybar."

The delivery dates also speak in favor of the version with Turkey: then the so-called. "Grain corridor," one of the guarantors of which was the Turks. The legal fact of using the sea route to supply Ukraine may indicate the direct involvement of the Turkish side.

In fact, this can be considered the first real confirmation of the supply of weapons by Azerbaijanis for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "02.11.2022 and 03.11.2022 the entire volume of goods in the amount of 135 units under the contract was imported into the territory of Ukraine in disassembled form" reads the document.

Azerbaijan's interaction with Ukraine is far from new. Earlier, the authorities in Baku transferred humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian authorities. A little later, the fact of the production of ammunition in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the participation of Azerbaijani mercenaries on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was revealed.

2020

Crime

2021: Number of intentional murders

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Prisons

2019: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 14

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is football

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History

2024: Armenia transfers villages to Azerbaijan in enclaves that have been under its control since the 1990s

In April 2024, an official statement was made that Armenia was transferring to Azerbaijan enclaves that had been under the control of Armenians since the 1990s.

The road from Yerevan to Syunik passes through Tigranashen (which will now become Kärki and is at an altitude).

Through other settlements there is a route from Ijevan and a gas pipeline to the south of Armenia (specifically through Voskepar).

2023

Continued supply of ammunition to Ukraine through third countries in violation of agreements with Russia

In December 2023, the Ukrainian activist decided to boast that a certain "partner country" organized the production of 122-mm shells and posted personnel from the workshops.

However, the journalist of the RTVI channel noticed in the recordings and photographs information stands with the symbols of Palladium Defense and Security Solutions, an Azerbaijani company headquartered in Baku. She is officially a partner of Ukroboronprom, which can be seen on the official website of the enterprise.

In fact, this is the first objective evidence of the manufacture and supply by Azerbaijan of ammunition for the Kyiv regime. This is most likely also happening with the money of Britain: according to the exact same scheme, Azerbaijanis previously sent demining equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The entire territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan

Main article: Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh)

2022

Deliveries of 82-mm mortars to Ukraine 20N5

In June 2022, Azerbaijani 82-mm 20N5 mortars were seen in service with the Ukrainian army. Earlier, Azerbaijan did not publicly declare the supply of any military equipment or weapons to Ukraine.

Deliveries of aerial bombs for the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special operation of Russia

The Iraqi TG channel Sabereen News distributed documents that Azerbaijan, in April 2022, secretly supplied ammunition to the Ukrainian military during a special operation by Russia.

According to these papers, CIHAZ Industrial Association (an organization under the Ministry of Defense Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan) sent air bombs for the Ukrainian Ukrspetsexport Group of Companies.

Deliveries were carried out by the Ukrainian airline Meridian from Khartoum Airport (Sudan) to the "famous" Rzeszów Airport (Poland), for further transportation of cargo to Ukraine. Flight MEM5002 was made on April 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30.

In the specification, the cargo is designated Precision Guided Air Bomb and Precision Guided Air Bomb INERT, one such bomb weighs 270 kg. A high-precision guided aerial bomb QFAB-250 LG is suitable for these parameters. This high-explosive ammunition with laser guidance, with a total weight of 270 kg (250 of them b/h) is a fairly new joint development of Azerbaijan and Turkey. By default, it is used by Su-25 attack aircraft, but of course it can be used by other aircraft from the Soviet reserve. Guidance and target designation is possible using the Bayraktar TB2 UAV.

In the specification of 04.04.22 and in the "vouchers" of 06.04.22 there is some discrepancy in the total number of boxes with ammunition and the total weight of the cargo, however, the sizes of boxes with bombs agree in both documents, and the UN0033 code puts an end to any doubts about the content of this cargo.

Thus, Azerbaijan (and to some extent Turkey) directly participated in the supply of high-precision aviation ammunition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, despite official neutrality towards the parties to the armed conflict in Ukraine.

Moscow Declaration on Allied Cooperation with Russia

On February 22, 2022 (exactly two days before the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine), the Moscow Declaration on Allied Cooperation between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation was signed.

2020

Victory in the second Karabakh war with Armenia

The second Karabakh war, which began on September 27, 2020, was predetermined by many factors. Unlike the first war, which ended in the defeat of Azerbaijan, this time the victory was on the side of Baku, which converted military successes into an agreement to return to its control a significant part of the territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as part of Nagorno-Karabakh itself - Shushi and Hadrut.

Among the factors contributing to the victory of Azerbaijan was its superiority in armament, primarily complete air dominance, which was achieved thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles purchased from Israel and Turkey. Experts believe that the Armenian side was taken by surprise by barraging ammunition ("kamikaze drones"). Among other factors that ensured Azerbaijan victory in the war was the help of Turkish military advisers, as well as, according to some reports, direct participation in the battles of Turkish military personnel, including pilots and gunners, as well as mercenaries from the Middle East (which, however, the Azerbaijani side categorically denies).

Speaking about the reasons for the defeat of Armenia, experts call the short-sighted policy of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who allowed the war in conditions when the country was not ready for it, the mistakes of the Armenian leadership in matters of military construction, strategic and tactical miscalculations of the Armenian military command.

The war ended on November 9, 2020 with the signing of a statement by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and President. Russia Vladimir Putin

The key point of the trilateral agreement was the agreement to deploy Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone, which should eliminate the possibility of resuming armed confrontation and create conditions for restarting the diplomatic process, which has stalled for a quarter of a century.

The victory of Azerbaijan sharply devalued the calls made by Nikol Pashinyan throughout the year in Yerevan to grant Nagorno-Karabakh a special status. There is not a word in the trilateral statement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia on November 9 about the need for a special status of Karabakh.

In this regard, in his address to the nation the very day after the signing of the trilateral statement of November 9, Ilham Aliyev said: "Well, Pashinyan? Where is your status? There's no status and there won't be. This is part of Azerbaijan, Pashinyan. "

In turn, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, after signing the statement by the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, confirmed Moscow's commitment to the principle of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. "Yes, this document does not talk about the status of Karabakh, at the moment we continue to proceed from all relevant basic acts of international law, primarily the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and other documents,"^[1].

After the Victory Parade in Baku on December 10 and negotiations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was present at the celebrations, Ilham Aliyev made a conciliatory statement to Armenia. "We discussed the creation of a unified platform for the development of the region in peace. This platform provides for cooperation between Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran. If Armenia draws the right conclusions from the ended war, we can cooperate with Armenia. We need to put an end to this feud, open a new page, "Ilham Aliyev said.

Rally in support of the war in Karabakh in Baku and the change of the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Few people drew attention to the large-scale rally held on the night of July 15, 2020 in Baku, whose participants demanded to start the "liberation war for Karabakh." In response, President Aliyev said that he "does not advise anyone to get ahead of events," although he admitted that those who took to the streets may have proceeded "from good motives."

"Everyone who said" I want to fight in Karabakh, "let them transfer their personal data to the State Service for Mobilization and Conscription for Military Service," Ilham Aliyev said then. Just a few hours later, the head of the State Service for Mobilization and Conscription, Arzu Ragimov, said: 4 thousand people have already registered.

The mood in Azerbaijani society, the indicator of which was the rally in Baku, became more and more radical in connection with the impasse in the negotiation process under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group and the loss of faith in a diplomatic solution.

In addition, unlike his predecessors - former presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan - Prime Minister Armenia Nikol Pashinyan provoked Azerbaijan with stinging statements and began to demonstratively demand that the world community recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, which became a serious irritant for Baku. Against this background, the tone of President Aliyev's statements became tougher. His statements increasingly broke through annoyance and irritation at the failures of the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group, created in the early 1990s, after the first Karabakh war, to resolve the frozen conflict.

"We do not intend to negotiate for the sake of imitation, to hold meaningless video conferences. There has to be meaning in everything. Negotiations must be conducted on the merits. If we see that they are meaningless, we will take appropriate steps, "Ilham Aliyev warned in the summer. Soon after, he dismissed Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, believing that he was defending Baku's position not actively enough, and appointed Jeyhun Bayramov as the new Foreign Minister. Having visited Moscow at the end of August, a month before the start of the second Karabakh war, the new head of Azerbaijani diplomacy attacked Yerevan with statements that his predecessor did not allow. He said that Armenia not only occupies 20% of the territory of his country, but also actively populates these territories with ethnic Armenians from neighboring regions, which, in his opinion, "undermines the peace process." In addition, Jeyhun Bayramov announced the desire of the Armenian leadership to maintain tensions on the border with Azerbaijan through "planned provocations in order to divert attention from the growing problems within the country."

The death of the military on both sides on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan

The first thunderstorm of the impending storm, which was not given much importance at first, sounded on July 12, 2020. On that day, clashes took place on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, hundreds of kilometers from Nagorno-Karabakh, which became the largest military incident between the parties since April 2016.

Then many politicians, diplomats and experts considered the incident to be of local importance.

Several Azerbaijani and Armenian soldiers were killed and injured during clashes on the border, the defense ministries of the two countries reported on July 13, 2020.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense reported that four Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and five were injured.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported two injured Armenian military. The parties exchanged accusations of violating the ceasefire and shelling.

Frozen conflict is a concern for the international community because it threatens stability in the region, which is a corridor for pipelines through which oil and gas enter world markets.

1991: All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR

On March 17, 1991, an All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR was held - the only one in the history of the USSR.

The issue of preserving the USSR as an updated Federation of equal sovereign states and republics of the former USSR was discussed.

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1909

1803: Russian flag raised over Baku fortress

During the offensive of Russian troops on Baku, Prince Tsitsianov was killed.

... "All night, risking his life, Bulgakov rode on horseback through the streets of the city, announcing to the population that he was the son of a Russian general, commander of the troops, and was then sent to calm the people and declare him forgiveness. Bakintsy, however, did not believe, and on the morning of October 2, the majority of the population was already outside the city.

The detachment, meanwhile, approached Baku. General Bulgakov was met a few miles from the city wall by one of the most influential people in the city, already familiar to him Kazem-bek, with sixteen effendi and elders, and after them the Armenian clergy came out with crosses and banners.

Raising the city banner and the keys of the citadel, Kazem-bek once again asked for the mercy of the people. While Bulgakov accepted the deputation, the Bakinians, cloning banners and heads, with Asian fatalism expected a decision on their fate, but soon their fears were dispelled.

Major Tarasov, on behalf of the commander-in-chief, announced a pardon to them, and then those present were sworn in allegiance to the Russian tsar.

At the same time, Major Generals Dekhtyarev and Count Gudovich (son of the Commander-in-Chief) traveled to the villages and sworn in villagers.

Thus, on September 3, 1806, the city of Baku, the subject of Tsitsianov's aspirations, was finally occupied by Russian troops, and the next day at eight o'clock in the morning the Russian flag was raised on the walls of the citadel. The body of Prince Tsitsianov, buried at the fortress gates, was immediately transferred with honors to a new grave prepared in an Armenian temple, and his killer Nuker Amir-Amza, captured in Baku, was put on a field trial, driven through the ranks and exiled to Siberia ^[2]

1700: As part of Safavid Persia

964: Albania, Shirvan

30 BC: Albans

129 BC.

200 BC: Caucasian Albania

640 BC: Scythians

IX in BC: Part of the state of Mann

• Main article: Manna (ancient state)

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